{"id":1994,"date":"2012-10-03T11:25:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T15:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2012-10-03T11:25:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T15:25:03","slug":"state-of-it-notes-from-september-it-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/2012\/10\/03\/state-of-it-notes-from-september-it-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"State of IT &#8211; Notes from September IT Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, CIO and Vice President for Planning Jerry DeSanto presented on the &#8220;State of IT&#8221; at the semester&#8217;s first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scranton.edu\/pir\/its\/it-forums\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">IT Forum<\/a>. His talk provided some really interesting insight into how CIOs strategically plan for the future &#8211; see his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scranton.edu\/pir\/its\/it-forums\/presentations\/Forum-September-2012.pptx\" target=\"_blank\"> slides (in pptx)<\/a> for more detail.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the trends that Jerry discussed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Consumerization<\/span> &#8211; consumers bring their interest in technology to the workplace, and increasingly they&#8217;re also <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bring_your_own_device\" target=\"_blank\">bringing their own devices (BYOD)<\/a> to the workplace as well. For CIOs, this means a shift to supporting a wider variety of devices, with less depth of support for any one device\/platform.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Cloud services<\/span> &#8211; as we use more cloud computing services, we rely less on the computing power of our desktop computers. Thin clients let users access software from the cloud, so you don&#8217;t have to be at a specific workstation to use certain software.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Security<\/span> &#8211; cloud computing raises a lot of issues in terms of security and data management &#8211; e.g., who owns the data? Is it secure? Is it exportable? Terms of service become very important. IR is working on some additional security initiatives, like two-factor authentication (for high risk data users), forced password changes, and guidelines for remote access (under development) &#8211; that is, how to safely work with restricted\/confidential data from a non-University device.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Teaching and Learning<\/span> &#8211; lots of new developments here &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massive_open_online_course\" target=\"_blank\">MOOCs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Learning_analytics\" target=\"_blank\">learning analytics<\/a>, software licensing&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Network<\/span> &#8211; The redundancy and reliability of the University network have become increasingly important. At the same time, there are increasing demands on the network (video streaming, gaming&#8230;). Our network just underwent a huge upgrade &#8211; our bandwidth is now 500 Mb, as compared to 50 Mb back in 2008.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_data\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Big data<\/span><\/a> &#8211; corporations are increasingly leveraging data about their consumers to make decisions and to get a competitive edge. We might start seeing some of these techniques used in higher ed.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Business continuity<\/span> &#8211; disaster recovery is really important. We have a good on-site data center, but we need an off-site backup as well.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Workforce and services<\/span> &#8211; soft skills are becoming as important in IT as technical skills. As more <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Software_as_a_service\" target=\"_blank\">software-as-a-service<\/a> tools become available, there&#8217;s less need for home-grown solutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there are lots of challenges ahead for Jerry and the IR division. Jerry has given TAG some questions he has about campus technology needs &#8211; we&#8217;ll be talking at our meeting today about how we can get input from the rest of the faculty. (More notes to come.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, CIO and Vice President for Planning Jerry DeSanto presented on the &#8220;State of IT&#8221; at the semester&#8217;s first IT Forum. His talk provided some really interesting insight into how CIOs strategically plan for the future &#8211; see his slides (in pptx) for more detail. 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